Chapter 31 - Income Distribution and Poverty

1		The welfare reform act passed in 1996 stipulated that no one could receive public assistance for more than years in their entire lifetime.
2		Of males aged 20 - 44, about percent of all whites are employed, while about percent of all blacks are employed.
3		The poverty rates of blacks and Hispanics is nearly times that of whites.
4		Today less than percent of all Americans live below the poverty line.
5		About percent of the world's population live on less than one dollar a day.